Our client is a Dubai-based technology company operating in the fintech sector with an active footprint in Africa through its mobile money and payments operations in Guinea. The organisation is focused on delivering innovative digital financial solutions that enhance accessibility efficiency and financial inclusion across emerging markets.
Role Overview
The CTO owns the companys technology vision architecture security posture and execution standards. This role ensures reliable delivery scalable operations and regulatory readiness across a high transaction fintech platform and a B2B ordering platform.
The CTO builds and leads a strong internal engineering organization governs external technology partners and ensures all technology decisions directly support business growth compliance expectations and long-term platform maintainability.
Job Type: Full Time/Permanent
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Platforms: High-transaction fintech/payments platform and B2B ordering/trade platform
1015 years of software engineering experience including 5 years leading teams in high transaction integration-heavy platforms (fintech/payments strongly preferred).
Strong architecture and backend depth in enterprise-grade systems (JVM-class ecosystems or equivalent).
Deep understanding of API-first design and relational database fundamentals.
Practical knowledge of modern authentication/authorization patterns and secure engineering practices in regulated environments.
Proven experience leading external tech partners and vendors with measurable SLAs and accountability.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms CI/CD pipelines observability and production operations (hands-on experience is a plus).
Excellent communication skills in English and French .
Experience operating in Africa or similar emerging markets is highly preferred.
Leadership Expectations
High ownership: Drives outcomes not excuses.
Strong judgment: Makes pragmatic decisions and manages trade-offs transparently.
Calm under pressure: Leads incidents and high-stakes decisions with clarity and confidence
Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Vision
Define and communicate a clear multi-year technology strategy aligned with business priorities (growth reliability compliance cost discipline).
Establish architectural principles and engineering standards that balance delivery speed with scalability and long-term maintainability.
Own technology roadmap inputs including:
Platform evolution and scalability planning
Security and compliance maturity roadmap
Data and analytics capability development
Delivery Governance & Execution Excellence
Establish and enforce a disciplined delivery operating system: sprint cadence release governance QA gates documentation standards and launch readiness.
Ensure consistent predictable delivery through strong prioritization dependency management and proactive risk mitigation.
Drive cross-functional execution alignment across Product Operations Commercial Compliance and Support teams.
Vendor and Technology Partner Leadership
Lead technology partner selection and provide input into contracting commercials and SLAs.
Implement and manage vendor scorecards covering delivery quality speed stability responsiveness and SLA adherence.
Enforce accountability through structured escalation corrective action plans and performance reviews.
Govern third-party integrations end-to-end including API contracts rollout plans monitoring and settlement readiness where applicable.
Architecture Security and Regulatory Readiness
Ensure secure-by-design engineering practices across platforms including: o Identity and access management patterns
Audit trails and logging
Data protection and secure coding fundamentals
Vulnerability management and remediation
Own technical readiness for compliance-driven requirements (e.g. KYC/AML workflows traceability operational controls) in partnership with Compliance and Legal.
Define and maintain policies for incident response disaster recovery and business continuity.
Reliability Performance and Production Operations
Own production stability and performance across platforms.
Define and enforce standards for monitoring alerting incident management and post-incident root cause analysis.
Ensure capacity planning and performance tuning appropriate for high-transaction environments.
Build operational runbooks and ensure support teams can resolve day-to-day issues without engineering becoming a bottleneck.
Team Building Leadership and Culture
Recruit develop and retain high-performing technical talent.
Build leadership layers including engineering managers technical leads and platform owners.
Create a culture of accountability measurable outcomes documentation and quality.
Coach leaders on delivery management performance management and professional stakeholder communication.
Budgeting & Technology Financial Discipline
Own technology budgets including infrastructure costs vendor spend and build-vs-buy decisions.
Maintain strong cost governance without compromising reliability security or compliance.
Provide transparent reporting to CEO and Board on:
Technology spend
Delivery health
Key risks and technical debt
Success Metrics (1218 Months)
Delivery & Execution
Roadmap milestone hit rate and release predictability.
Reduction in slipped or de-scoped releases.
Platform Stability & Reliability
Uptime and availability against targets.
Incident frequency MTTR and repeat incident rate.
Quality
Production defect rate and defect leakage.
Regression frequency and overall quality maturity.
Security & Compliance
Audit outcomes and regulatory findings.
Time to close critical vulnerabilities.
Security incident frequency and severity.
Vendor Performance
SLA adherence.
Delivery quality scores.
Escalation resolution time.
Team & Leadership
Hiring plan achievement.
Attrition control.
Strength and depth of leadership bench.
Benefits
Visa sponsorship
Flights covered
Spouse and children sponsorship included
Health insurance included
Additional benefits are company specific and open to discussion
Employment Type : Full Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1
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